Kristin Butcher is a Canadian writer and reviewer of young adult and juvenile fiction. Her first novel, The Runaways was published that same year and went on to be a regional Silver Birch Award winner. Since then she has published ten other books, including two biographies for primary readers and three titles in the successful Soundings series from Orca Books, one of which (Zee's Way) won the 2006 Chocolate Lily Award.